Articles tagged with "language"

I would like to continue my list of recommendations about language learning. This time I will name several useful tools and possible resources. Some of them are connected to the German language.

But you are different from us, how does it feel?

The German language is widely spoken in Europe, with 95 million native speakers mainly in Central Europe, and 10 to 15 million speak it as a second language. It is the official language and majority language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and South Tyrol, a bilingual and bicultural region in northeast Italy (it is also spoken in Luxembourg and Belgium but not as a majority language.)

During my bachelor's studies in communication and cultural sciences, I bumped into such a fascinating concept that has stuck with me since then: the language you speak shapes your understanding of the world.

Wie viel eine Sprache ausmachen kann

Can one integrate without language skills?
Living abroad and trying to integrate as much as possible.
Culture and language.

Every morning we are going to work by communicating with different people. Especially
in our volunteering routine we can get to know with new people having a new
communication. And quite often it seems difficult to communicate some of them having a
misunderstanding or being a foreign country. Probably you will say that communication is
general concept, that can includes many occasions(language, characteristics, emotions,
cultural features etc)to be ineffective. That’s right. But even in that case we can use it
effectively by following some methods. Because we are here to get rid of such
misunderstanding and to have a mutual comprehensions with others.

Eurovision famously claims that it is entirely apolitical. However, the controversies surrounding the hosting of the 2019 event in Israel demonstrate that this is not true. This article explores Eurovision as a unique event which allows young people in Europe to engage with politics and to explore their cultural identities in an accessible format.

This article discusses the increasing popularity of music in languages other than English, asking why the last few years has seen a dramatic rise in the number of non-English language music charting internationally. It also explores the positive effects that linguistically and culturally diverse music has on communities.

Living abroad seems to be a perfect short cut to master a foreign language. Here is why it is not - and how you can get the most language improvement out of your experience anyway.